Quizzes From The-N

Clueless (1995)

It is always great to see this movie on a print and with a group. It is just so genius. I'm going to limit my comments to how this film relates to 677 in terms of the readings and other screenings, just to narrow the focus of this post.

After seeing Stella Dallas last week at thinking of fashion in terms of class signifiers, this movie really does use fashion as a class locater, specifically, LA/Beverly Hills elitism. More to come later...

After Stonewall (1986)

This documentary was a nice review of GLBT history in terms of politics and movements unrelated to film history. I, naively, don't know much about The Stonewall events or the history of the GLBT political movement. It seems that my generation has never had to really live in secret shame if we chose not to (and of course moved to a tolerant location) and so we have become more apathetic about the politics. Yes, gay marriage is a huge issue, but I don't see any giant marches or parades or protests like this film illustrated. I'm going to refrain from making any more comments on this film and instead post a link to a reveiw that sums it up nicely.

http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/film_review.asp?ID=1391